EYFS – Big Garden Birdwatch – Forest School

This weekend, it is the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch so we have enjoyed a number of activities around birds today in our Forest School session. Lots of the children took to the challenge of completing bird pictures using paint mixed from the charcoal in our own firepit! We discussed how birds can struggle in the winter as there is less natural food for them to eat and how important it is to feed birds in gardens to help supplement their diet and help them survive the winter. Pupils then led their own learning by choosing to make bird fat balls using lard and bird seeds with string attached to hang them from trees to feed our feathered friends we have around the school site an energy boosting snack. Children also made nests using loose parts to keep our Forest School eggs safe, warm and dry. Pupils also explored other areas of our Forest School provision including the mud kitchen and the numerous large puddles which have appeared due to the heavy rain! It was so slippy and wet children created a mud slide which provided endless amounts of fun, teamwork and determination trying to make it up or down the mud bank without falling over! Sorry parents! Eventually driven back indoors, we took to some avian activities of a warmer and drier kind! The children chose to hone their colouring skills with some bird drawings as well as watching a live feed of a bird feeder where we spotted a number of different species of birds.

If you want to find out more information and to take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch, please use the follow link: https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch